No surgery for injured Canes trio after playoff run

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Carolina Hurricanes players Jalen Chatfield, Sean Walker and Seth Jarvis said Friday they don't program to person country for injuries aft the team's playoff tally to the Eastern Conference final.

Chatfield missed Carolina's past six games with what the defenseman described arsenic a hep injury, portion chap blue-liner Walker was dealing with an aggravation of a enarthrosis injury. As for Jarvis, the team's person successful regular-season goals and postseason points, the guardant said helium plans to enactment connected strengthening and rehabbing a lingering right-shoulder contented for the 2nd consecutive offseason.

Carolina is the lone NHL squad with an progressive streak of winning astatine slightest 1 postseason bid for 7 consecutive years, with this year's five-game nonaccomplishment to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers marking a 3rd travel to the Eastern last successful that span.

Chatfield had missed the closeout crippled of the second-round bid against Washington and past the full Florida series. The squad had ne'er specified the quality of Chatfield's injury, which became a communal question for manager Rod Brind'Amour, and helium said helium should beryllium good with other rehab time.

"Just thing successful the hip," Chatfield said during Friday's end-of-year subordinate interviews. "It's hard erstwhile you get that, trying to skate done that. I conscionable couldn't adjacent get to that velocity wherever I would adjacent beryllium susceptible of adjacent helping the squad connected the ice.

"I was capable to get backmost connected the crystal earlier the past crippled and hopefully it was going to beryllium different crippled oregon 2 earlier I could return. I was ace close, for sure."

Chatfield typically held a second-pairing spot with Dmitry Orlov earlier his absence, and helium scored Carolina's archetypal postseason extremity conscionable 2:24 into the opener against New Jersey. Brind'Amour astatine 1 constituent called Chatfield "day to day" successful the astir optimistic update during his absence.

"Making it arsenic acold arsenic we did and being capable to play against Florida, it was pugnacious watching," Chatfield said.

The interaction of Chatfield's lack compounded erstwhile Walker missed the past 3 games of the Florida series, his past quality coming successful Game 2 aft taking a jarring open-ice deed from A.J. Greer and yet exiting early. At that point, Carolina was down 2 of its apical six defensemen and playing rookies Alexander Nikishin and Scott Morrow with its play connected the brink.

Walker said helium had suffered a insignificant enarthrosis wounded precocious successful the regular play that was improving done the postseason earlier the Greer deed "set maine backmost beauteous significantly." He said helium was hoping to instrumentality if Carolina precocious to the Stanley Cup Final, but didn't request surgery.

Then there's Jarvis, who led Carolina with 10 assists and 16 points successful 15 playoff games aft tallying a team-best 32 goals successful 73 regular-season games. Surgery had been a anticipation past year, though helium has focused connected rehab and strengthening his shoulder.

"We loved wherever it was astatine the commencement of the season, successful presumption of the wellness of it and the spot and everything," Jarvis said. "Early connected it benignant of started to gaffe a small bit, and past benignant of re-tore each the enactment we did connected it and each the spot and everything we did. So conscionable dealing with it again wasn't excessively bad, benignant of the aforesaid happening arsenic past year."

Jarvis described the wounded arsenic creating much of an contented of symptom tolerance than inhibiting on-ice enactment - "I mean, the lone quality would beryllium I'd astir apt beryllium capable to propulsion a existent bully spiral," Jarvis said of country - portion the protective brace helium returned to during the play mightiness forestall him from reaching up to drawback a puck.

He played each 15 of Carolina's postseason games, scoring the tying extremity successful the 3rd play of Game 5 against Florida successful what turned retired to beryllium the Hurricanes' past of the season.

"This summer, we were dancing astir the thought of what to bash with it," Jarvis said. "The season's gone beauteous late, I don't privation to miss a batch of time. So I'm going to spell with the aforesaid protocol arsenic past summertime of fortify it, rehab it. Hopefully possibly deterioration the brace from the precise opening of the year, and past spell from there."